The Raven Gets a New Poster, Release Date

Besides giving fiery wings to a new poster, Relativity’s thriller “The Raven” has gotten a new release date. The film has been pushed back one month from March to April 27th. Hey, at least the studio didn’t push it back an entire year, the way Warner recently did with Bryan Singer’s “Jack the Giant Killer”.

When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper—part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe. But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story. Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe’s writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author’s help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer’s next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it’s too late.